Kale Hintz
Faith and life 5/3/2014
Final Vocational Paper
In the future I expect there to be a large number of situations that I will be able to
incorporate my Christian vocation in the profession that am perusing, which is physical therapy.
I plan to strive to please God in the work that I am doing and to live in a way that not only helps
me but those around me. I am well aware that there will be times that my job tests my faith in
my vocations and that in order to live out my vocation I will have to work hard and be willing to
personally sacrifice for the good of others.
In order to accomplish my dream vocation of becoming a physical therapist I am going
to need to set and work hard to achieve attainable goals for my future. By setting goals, I will
continue to be remembered that I have not achieved what I want to and will work harder to get
to where I want to be in life. Once I have achieved my goals I will create more goals to achieve. I
feel that it is important for anyone who wants to live a productive and God pleasing life to place
goals before themselves. I feel that it is God pleasing because He wishes us to not be “idle” or in
other words God wants us to use his gracious gift of life here on earth for good and this cannot
be done sitting in front of a TV every day and not working towards something. To become a
physical therapist I have set the goals of, to graduate with good academic standing and to be
accepted into a physical therapy graduate program. With this major life goal I will most
certainly have additional goals and achievement’s that I wish to reach and over time these goals
will change as many vocations do, but I will continue to make sure that in everything that I do I
am doing it for a purpose of working towards something.
In my vocation I know that there will be the need for forgiveness and not to hold grudges. As it
says in the Lords prayer, “forgive US our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against
us”, it is very obvious that God wishes us to forgive as he has forgiven us. God has granted us
with the ability to be saved even after all of the sin that we commit in a lifetime, but he wishes
that we don’t remain angry or wish vengeance to those who have done us wrong. As a physical
therapist I may be faced with helping someone recover that has done me wrong in the past but
as a Christian and a professional I must put that aside and help them with the best of my ability.
Through my life I must have hope in order to achieve my vocations as a Christian.
Although we all have been through times when it may have seemed that we were alone and
that God had abandoned us, we as Christians must trust that God is all knowing and all seeing
and that he has a plan for us and is watching over us. With this in mind a picture my mom has
hanging in our living room come to mind; this picture is of footprints in the sand and at first
there is two sets of them and then there is only one and that is to represent a man and God
walking along life. When the man reached heaven he asked God why he had left him in the
hard points in his life and God replied with “When there was one set of footprints is when He
has carried the man through the hardest times in his life”. That picture will forever be engraved
in my mind and I hope that I will continue through my life with the strength in my faith that I
have today, knowing that God does have a plan for me and that he will carry me when I have
fallen. I must be able to put trust in the fact that God will provide me with the opportunities
that will allow me to reach my desired vocation, but I also need to keep in mind that if God has
another purpose for me and things don’t work out with what I wanted to do I must not lose
faith in Him. I must put faith in God as my patients will put in me, trusting that he will provide
me with the opportunity to help others live and that they will trust in me to help them.
In order to show through my actions to others that I am a follower of Jesus I must work
hard on my vocation first, to ensure that I am not neglecting any of my life such as my children
and my wife. By helping those in need I will be able to show others that I am a follower of Jesus
and I am truly trying to fulfill the commandment of “love thy neighbor”. I will aspire to live a
life that someone can look up to and know that that is how they wish to live out their life as a
follower and believer of Jesus. I must also remember that we, ALL OF US, are full of sin and that
it is human nature to sin. I must realize that I am a sinner first and that others are sinners by
nature as well. By doing this it will come easier to forgive, because it will emphasize the fact
that I am not perfect, nor is anyone else. I have come to realize that it is important for me a
Christian to express my faith through my actions. As a physical therapist I must truly want to
make others better rather than seeing them as a paycheck or something that I must do. By
doing this I am not only spreading the word but I am leading by example. I have had countless
people in my life that I have looked to as inspiration and a role model on how to live my life,
and I hope and pray that one day I can be this type of person to someone .
Overall, Faith and Life has taught me a lot, or helped me realize how I live my life and how God
wishes us to live our life. I know that I am not perfect, but this doesn’t mean that I can strive to
live to become better and to help as many people along the way as possible. I realize that the
life that I am living here on Earth is a God given gift and that it is not to be spent striving for
personal gain, “for God helps the defenders of the defenseless”. I must try, although it may be
hard at time, to help those who are in need and that need a hand to get back up on their feet,
because it could be that person in the position to decide whether they are going to help me in
my time of need. I have learned the importance of loving thy neighbor and that if I truly try to
do this much of my life of a Christian will be accomplished. This class has not only been an
educational but also eye opening experience that I will carry thought my life.